Mali

Books in this genre are set in or about Mali.

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
The Fortunes of Wangrin
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years With a Midwife in Mali
Segu (Ségou, #1)
Sundiata:  An Epic of Old Mali
Amkoullel, l'enfant Peul
Bound to Violence
The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: The Quest for This Storied City and the Race to Save its Treasures
Masquerade
To Timbuktu for a Haircut: A Journey through West Africa
The Lieutenant of Kouta
The Shadow of the Sun
The Children of Segu (Ségou, #2)
Walking with Abel: Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah
The Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles to Timbuktu
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeNo Longer at Ease by Chinua AchebeSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihA Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oThe River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
African Writers Series
244 books — 70 voters
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieWhat the Earl Desires by Aliyah BurkeThe Last Twilight by Marjorie M. LiuHer Reluctant Viscount by Aliyah BurkeA Respectable Trade by Philippa Gregory
Africans in Romance
39 books — 11 voters

High Society in the Regency Period, 1788-1830 by Venetia MurrayWater Music by T. Coraghessan BoyleThe Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the... by Joshua HammerLeo Africanus by Amin MaaloufTravels into the Interior of Africa by Mungo Park
Timbuctoo Reading List
16 books — 3 voters
Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor WilliamsSimply Effective by Ron AshkenasThe Kraals of Ulundi by David Ebsworth"The Shining Ones" by Helene E. Hagan
Books On African History
230 books — 59 voters


Enock Maregesi
“ Mungu akikubariki kipaji chako watu watasema ni laana. Maisha yako ni sawa na mto. Unakoelekea ni baharini. Lakini sasa umefika kwenye mlango wa bahari. Unahangaika upite wapi kufika baharini, ambapo utaogelea kwa kadiri utakavyoweza. Utakapofika baharini, watu, badala ya kusema umebarikiwa, watasema umelaaniwa, badala ya kukuita malaika, watakuita shetani. Mafanikio hayapimwi kwa pesa au mali kiasi gani unayo, mafanikio yanapimwa kwa amani ya moyo au maisha ya watu kiasi gani umeboresha. ”
― Enock Maregesi

Enock Maregesi
“ Lakini ukweli ni upi? Ukweli ni kwamba utajiri una changamoto nyingi kuupata na kuudumisha pia kuliko usomi na kwamba ukweli ni amani ya Mungu katika moyo wa mwanadamu. Heri msomi kuliko tajiri – Heri yule aliyesoma kuliko tajiri asiyesoma au yule aliyesoma kuliko vile alivyosoma tajiri au tajiri asiyesoma au aliyesoma lakini asiyekuwa na tamaa kabisa na dunia hii ambaye kukosa kwake tamaa na dunia hii kunamfanya msomi. Ndivyo Kristo anavyomaanisha. Si kwamba tajiri hawezi kuuona ufalme wa mbing ...more ”
― Enock Maregesi

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